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Mit dem Vacuclave 318 von MELAG werden die verwendeten Instrumente höchsteffizient sterilisiert. Die ausgefeilte Technik ist ebenfalls bei der intuitiven Bedienung des Displays bemerkbar.

Liberi di sorridere – For 30 years, Dr. Zanotto's dental clinic has been putting smiles on the faces of their patients. To achieve this, we offer an excellent service in both patient treatment and infection control. Our well-structured clinic workflow with more than 10 dentists and 5 operating rooms does not allow any compromises. That is why we rely on high quality MELAG products made in Germany for instrument reprocessing.

Thanks to the perfectly coordinated products of the MELAG System Solution, we save a lot of time and can follow our principle of sophisticated patient treatment. We decided for automatic cleaning and disinfection with MELAtherm 10 Evolution. The fast cycle times, the reduction of our workload and better protection against injuries totally convinced us. The MELAG washer-disinfector not only offers intuitive operation with video tutorials for safe operation, but also with optimal cleaning and drying results.

Before we pack the instruments with the MELAseal Pro rotary sealer, we carry out the visual inspection and care for the instruments if necessary. Then we sterilise with one of our two class B autoclaves. The Vacuklav 40 B+ Evolution model inspires us every day with its speed and high loading capacity - whether individually wrapped instruments or sterilisation containers, the smart DRYtelligence guarantees our team optimal drying results in every cycle. This makes instrument reprocessing fun!

The MELAG system with innovative technologies guarantees perfect protection for our patients and our team alike. We are pleased to have MELAG as a partner who meets our high standards of technology and quality.   

This security allows my team to work highly efficient and lets me sleep peacefully at night.

Cleaning, disinfection, lubrication and sterilization in just one device - for a happy team and happy patients!

In the middle of Berlin-Reinickendorf, the practice of the dentists Dr. Kesler and Dr. Verdenhalven extends over 2 floors in a classic single-family house. Consisting of three dentists, seven assistants and three prophylaxis assistants, the team provides best dental treatments and offers their patients a wide range of dental care in the various treatment and prophylaxis rooms.

Small but nice - with Careclave everything runs smoothly even when space is limited

In our daily practice, we usually prepare our instruments twice a day - at the change of a shift and at the end of the working day. Looking at our reprocessing room that measures only 5 square meters, not much else fits into this room, besides our Careclave, the Cooling Box, a MELAseal 100 and our label printer. With Careclave, however, we can still provide a safe, reliable and efficient instrument reprocessing, even in the small amount of space we have. Therefore we always follow a specific decontamination procedure and divide up the tasks in the team.

In the beginning, we collect all the instruments in the treatment rooms and transport them to the reprocessing room. There we pre-clean them manually and disinfect them in a thermal bath. Afterwards critically classified instruments that need to be sterilized are packed into a sterile pack using our MELAseal 100 and are placed on tray mounts for Careclave. With the Vacuclave program we start sterilizing them in our 4-in-1 Solution. Since all reprocessing steps are completely documented by Careclave and automatically saved on a CF card, we don’t need any additional documentation software. Once the sterilization is completed, we remove the reprocessed instruments, label them appropriately and finally return them to the respective treatment rooms.

The Care-S Program

With the Care-S program of Careclave, we also have the possibility to carry out a reliable cleaning, disinfection and lubrication of our transmission instruments. Depending on patient volume, we usually load the Carebox with 2 up to 6 handpieces by simply twisting the instruments onto the respective adapters until they lock into place. Following we place the Carebox onto the door of the device and start the program - a very simple process. Once the program is completed, we insert the Carebox in the Coolingbox to let the instruments cool down. After only 4 minutes, the handpieces are available again - cleaned, disinfected and well cared for use. Once a week we also do a intensive care for a long-term value retention of our instruments. For that we use the chuck lubrication station named ADDcare directly integrated into Careclave. The weekly use protects our instruments from corrosion and wear and thus also enables us to reduce repair costs in the long term.

Summarized in one sentence: we are very happy to have Careclave as a specialist for instrument reprocessing in our team and we don't want to do without it ever again!

In order to meet highest quality standards in instrument reprocessing, our practice consists of 19 employees and 8 fully equiped treatment rooms. To ensure that every patient receives the best possible care in every area of dentistry, each of us has different treatment specialties. Thanks to our specialists, but also to the modern technical equipment and high-quality instruments in our practice, we are able to provide safe, gentle and successful treatments at all times.

To ensure this high quality standards in our daily work over the long term, we have relied on Careclave since 2019.

Instrument protection á la Careclave

Each of our treatment room is equipped with sets of handpieces from W&H and NSK. In order to prevent wear and soiling of our valuable instruments and consequently expensive investments in new instruments, we rely on highly defined and structured workflows, short reprocessing cycles and a reliable and long-term value retention of our transmission instruments. All this is possible with Careclave.

After a treatment on the patient, the used and contaminated instruments are brought into the decontamination room in a closed container. Once there, we start loading the Carebox with up to 8 handpieces and turbines. Thanks to the innovative dosing system of Careclave, precise reprocessing is ensured for each instrument – even if unneeded adapters remain free in the Carebox.

We were particularly impressed by the loading concept: Careclave combines cleaning & disinfection, lubrication and sterilization in one single device. If we need to reprocess further instruments in addition to cleaning and lubricating our hollow-body instruments in the Carebox, we use the rear part of the chamber for sterilizing them in just one cycle. To do this, we only need to hang the loaded Carebox in the door and place the remaining instruments on the short tray mounts – a process that could not be simpler.

After only 18 minutes, the transmission instruments are cleaned, disinfected and lubricated which is the most important prerequisite for a long lifespan and a reliable value retention of the instruments. And even expensive repairs of our instrument heads are no longer an issue for us: Every Friday we carry out the chuck system care directly on the device according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Therefore a special care station is integrated in the door of Careclave where we can easily lubricate the handpieces by using a fully-synthetic oil. At the same time Careclave documents the entire reprocessing procedure with all important process parameters in order to ensure compliant and complete traceability.

If the instruments are needed for the next patient immediately after reprocessing, we additionally use our Cooling box by simply inserting the Carebox lid into it. In only 4 minutes the Cooling box guarantees cool instruments ready to use for the next treatment.

Over a year with Careclave, over a year of carefree instrument reprocessing

The combination of a modern autoclave with a reprocessing and lubrication device for dental hollow body instruments not only saves time and space in the decontamination room, but also ensures the protection of our patients and instruments. The systematic cleaning, oiling and lubrication of our chuck systems guarantee reliable functioning and a long-term value retention.

There are frequent reports on social media about the high service costs for repairs of inadequately lubricated handpieces and turbines. Fortunately, in the entire time we have been reprocessing our instruments with Careclave, we have not had a single lubrication-related failure of an instrument.

As much as we rely on our instruments, we also rely on the new device concept from MELAG: Careclave convinces us again and again in our everyday work with its efficient funcionalities and the excellent MELAG quality.

We always wanted to create areas for patients that do not correspond to common ideas of a dental practice. Our practice concept was to counteract the usual stress and hectic of a big city and offer a holistic approach to treatment. With the latest technology and stylish treatment rooms, we have realized this idea in 2018 in our dental practice berliner MundArt.

Workflow of the future

Instrument reprocessing in our dental practice also no longer corresponds to standard workflows. Since 2019, we have been using Careclave to protect our patients and instruments. During a test phase, we were able to convince ourselves of the new device concept: The combination of autoclave and washer-disinfector in just one device not only sounds promising, but it is. With the innovative solution from MELAG, the particularly time-consuming decontamination and lubrication processes for dental hollow instruments are finally a thing of the past.

And it's that simple: Immediately after treatment, we load the Carebox with up to 8 transmission instruments or up to 8 ultrasonic scaler tips and prophylaxis handpieces in the unclean area of our reprocessing room. For rapid instrument reprocessing, my practice team simply adapt the Carebox into the door and starts a program: In just 16 minutes, Careclave takes over the reprocessing and optional oiling of the instruments!

After the subsequent visual inspection, not only documentation, approval and labeling are carried out, but also the chuck system care. A special care station is integrated in the door for maintaining the long-term value retention of our precious instruments. This is a function I have never seen in any other decontamination solution before.

The all-rounder from MELAG is also ideally suited to the sterilization of instruments. Either we use Careclave with Carebox and short tray mount as a combination device or with a long tray mount as a practice autoclave. With a load of up to 11 kg, we sterilize our instruments on 8 trays or in four MELAstore Boxes.

Careclave - The all-rounder in the decontamination room

The entire practice team of berliner MundArt agrees: we can rely on Careclave 100% - 7 days a week! The innovative and holistic approach fits perfectly with our practice concept. Cleaning, disinfection, lubrication and sterilization in just one device ensures standard compliant reprocessing, long-term value retention of the transmission instruments and at the same time gives us the most valuable resource in today's world: time that we can no longer spend in the reprocessing room, but with the individual treatment of our patients.

Dentalzentrum Plus is there for their patients with locations in Berlin Charlottenburg, Schöneberg and Marzahn over 300 days a year. Dentalzentrum Plus in Charlottenburg alone offers 17 modern treatment rooms. This clinic size requires not only compliance with the highest quality standards in instrument reprocessing, but also efficient workflows.

Instrument reprocessing in XXL

We want to take the best possible care of our patients. Therefore it is our aspiration to work hygienically at the highest level and to minimize the time spent in the decontamination room. The system from MELAG has supported us since the opening of our dental clinic. MELAtherm 10 Evolution, MELAseal Pro and Vacuklav 40 B+ Evolution convince with the reprocessing of large quantities of instruments in the shortest possible time.

To ensure that our handpieces and turbines are also ready for the next treatment, we rely on a completely new device concept: Careclave combines a modern autoclave with a reprocessing and lubrication device for dental hollow-body instruments. We can now clean, disinfect and care up to 8 hollow-body instruments in only 16 - 18 minutes.

Careclave offers the flexibility we need on tightly scheduled workdays. In addition to reprocessing and lubricating hollow-body instruments in the Carebox, we use the rear part of the chamber for sterilizing other instruments in just one cycle. In case of an increased sterilization volume, the Careclave is even available as an additional Class B autoclave. With the help of the long holding mount, up to 11 kg of instruments packed in foils or in boxes can be sterilized.

Our conclusion after more than a year with Careclave

For systematic treatment of our patients, we combine all specialists in dentistry under one roof. Since November 2019, this systematic approach has also been reflected in instrument reprocessing at our clinic in Charlottenburg: Careclave combines cleaning, disinfection, lubrication, sterilization and documentation in a single device.

Careclave thus provides the highest standards of infection control and further unique advantages to us:

1. Reduced number of devices in the decontamination room results in lower ongoing costs for maintenance and validation
2. Fast cycle times save the cost-intensive purchase of additional instrument sets
3. Systematic cleaning, oiling and lubrication of chuck systems reduce service costs for repairs of transmission instruments

However, the Careclave scores not only with an innovative device concept, but also with the superior MELAG quality – made in Germany. For this reason, we have decided to equip further locations of Dentalzentrum Plus with Careclave for an optimal hygiene workflow.

Lipp & Lutz dental practice is a major Berlin practice for tooth preservation, preventive care and aesthetics. With six modern treatment rooms and 21 qualified employees, Lipp & Lutz has been following the request of their discerning patients for many years to have a specialist in every important working area of the practice. In order to meet the wishes of their patients and to be able to guarantee a high quality of treatment, the dentists Lipp & Lutz have been relying on Careclave - the specialist in instrument reprocessing - since 2019.

Easy loading, maximum care protection

In a total of six treatment rooms in our practice, we have 10 unwrapped basic sets for non-surgical use. The wrapped surgical instruments as well as the unwrapped dental handpieces and turbines are located in the decontamination room.

Once a treatment has been completed, the assistant brings the instruments used to the decontamination room and prepares them for reprocessing. The loading process of Careclave is super simple and straightforward. We load the Carebox Blue on the unclean side of the decontamination room with up to 8 turbines and dental handpieces and insert it into Careclave. Then we just have to close the door. Careclave automatically recognizes the attached Carebox and starts the appropriate program for the instruments.

In our practice we only use the Care-Therm program, which completely cleans, disinfects and lubricates dental handpieces and turbines in only 18 minutes. It is also practical that the MELAG Care Oil supplies every instrument in the Carebox with the exact amount of oil required. This enables economical consumption and guarantees that our instruments will retain their value for a long time. At least once a week, we also use the ADDcare station integrated in the door to lubricate the instrument heads of the chuck system directly on Careclave.

Once the Care-Therm program is completed we load the hot instruments into the Cooling Box to cool them down to a treatment temperature in only four minutes.

Careclave is our specialist in instrument reprocessing

We have been using Careclave in our practice for over a year to ideally prepare our instruments for daily use.

At the beginning of the field test phase, we weren't quite sure whether Careclave could cope with the high workload of our practice. However, this skepticism has never been confirmed. Due to the very fast cycle times and the diverse loading options, we quickly learned to love Careclave!

Thanks to the modern device concept, which combines the reprocessing workflow of cleaning & disinfection, lubrication, sterilization and documentation in just one product, we benefit from many valuable advantages. We have more space in the decontamination room and, thanks to the short and efficient reprocessing cycles, save a lot of time and money.

With Careclave, we meet the wishes of our discerning patients to have a specialist in every important area. Careclave is our specialist in instrument reprocessing and gives our patients the secure feeling that they are always in best hands.

MELAG Medizintechnik recently certified Dr. Aldo Vezzoni as a MELAG Hygiene Partner for meeting the highest requirements in instrument decontamination: in order to protect the patients and staff alike, the clinic uses state-of-the-art technology in accordance with the relevant international hospital standards.

Located in the region of Lombardy in Cremona, the practice welcomes its veterinary patients with a friendly and well-educated team that exclusively consists of qualified veterinarians and technical personnel.

40 years of experience of Dr. Aldo Vezzoni shared by the same passion for animal care, makes for a secure and reliable workflow that enables the team to always put the patients first. 

Dr. Vezzoni is a luminary in the field of orthopedics. The practice for orthopedic specialization is known worldwide, as they also use the latest technologies on animals. Vezzoni Veterinary Clinic performs also medical, surgical, cardiac, dermatological and many more treatment procedures which offers everyone the chance to find the perfect treatment for their four-legged friends.  

With several treatment rooms, operating rooms and laboratories, Dr. Vezzoni's veterinary clinic is one of the largest clinics in the region. Therefore, the clinic relies on its technical equipment and trusts in the MELAG System Solution. It offers the practice team and patients complete safety in practice hygiene, and ensures highest standards in patient and infection protection. 

In July 2021, MELAG desktop steam sterilizers were installed in several batches in the Zhuhai Stomatological Hospital, the main public dental hospital of the city in China. The renovation project of the hospitals outpatient department is one of the regions key hospital projects, with a total investment of about 45 million yuan and an area of ​​6,400 square meters. The overall scale of the department has been expanded by more than 50% and now features 63 dental chairs with an average of 500 patients daily.

The outpatient department was greatly optimized and upgraded to allow for more streamlined patient registration and treatment. It is stretched on seven floors, featuring departments for periodontology, endodontics, implantology, orthodontics as well as a children's dental center and a radiology department.

The hospital attaches great importance to the management of dental instrument infection control and serves as a regional model project that aims to fulfill the highest standards. With the help of Infection Control specialists of Guangzhou Yuanfu Trading Co, the reprocessing area was designed as the logistics center of the clinic. This so-called “Sterilization Supply Center” covers nearly 400 square meters and features a clear separation into a decontamination area, inspection and packaging area, and a sterile material storage area.

To allow quick access by all departments a unique location was chosen for the Sterilization Supply Center - in the very center of the clinic on the fourth floor.

Due to this layout, the room had to fulfill increased requirements, ensuring overall stability of the building. To reach a maximum of efficiency in this special location, the room was therefore equipped with 20 MELAG “Vacuklav” steam sterilizers, both Pro-Class Vacuklav 24B+ and the Premium-Class Vacuklav 44B+. This setup allows for the most flexible and fast sterilization workflow according to the individual needs of the departments and provide highest patient protection.

In 2016 the MIKROS Dental Center was  one of a few dental clinics in the whole city Chernivtsi, that was using the full optimized MELAG system solution for cleaning and sterilizing dental instruments. It became an important factor for building confidence to the center, and as a result, today the practice receives a high number of patients every day which gives the MIKROS Dental Center an even higher responsibility to their patients in maintaining the hygiene standards.

With a broad-based team of dentists the practice offers almost all dental treatments such as prophylaxis, orthodontics, dental therapy, prosthetic dentistry, periodontology and many more. Espiacially with such a variation of treatments a fast, precise and reliable decontamination process is required.